internet censorship

blogs.wsj.com

This week's Digits from Asia show features an exclusive interview with Chinese political blogger Michael Anti on China's Internet censorship, apps that bridge the real and virtual worlds and how a basketball coach's innovation made it to Hollywood....

www.theverge.com

Google Chairman Eric Schmidt is planning a visit to North Korea that could occur as early as this month, reports the Associated Press. Citing two sources familiar with the executive's itinerary, the AP reveals that Schmidt will be making the trip with former New Mexico governor Bill Richardson. Exactly...

www.readwriteweb.com

In times of Internet censorship and governmental interference with citizen Web use, the need for private browsing has never been more apparent or more crucial to political processes. Perhaps in response to its woes in China, Google has reaffirmed its support of online anonymity for political purposes in a recent...

www.guardian.co.uk

How Washington DC is aiming to help any smartphone user anywhere in the world outflank attempts to shut down web trafficFor more than a year, the intelligence services of various authoritarian regimes have shown an intense desire to know more about what goes on in an office building on L Street...

chris.pirillo.com

Is the School Spying on Your Child? is a post from Chris PirilloAccording to a new lawsuit filed recently, the Lower Merion School District issued laptops to students, and then used the built-in webcams to spy on them. The school allegedly spied on the kids not only during school hours,...

www.techdirt.com

For years, we've highlighted the USTR's silly "Special 301" report, in which it lists out "naughty" countries who aren't doing enough to meet Hollywood and the Pharma industry's definitions of what intellectual property laws should look like. This is based on no real methodology, other than that each year, the...

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Tech-loving Dmitry Medvedev barely able to contain delight at meeting, which prompted anger from Russian bloggersA trip to McDonald's, a photo shoot on Red Square, and a chummy meeting with one of his biggest fans - it's all in a day's work for Facebook's chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, who met...

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Some of the stories people are talking about this morning: » Yelp advertising is a rip-off for small advertisers (Venture Beat) » Will Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) Kill Ratings For Pay Cable? (paidContent) » Under Threat Of Being Blocked Google (NSDQ: GOOG), Facebook Comply With India’s New Internet Censorship Rules...

techcrunch.com

Everyone loves sharing photos…even iron-fisted theocratic rulers bent on destroying the very freedom embodied by social networks. Iranian Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, whose government banned Facebook for inciting democratic protests, has created a page of his own with surprisingly sophisticated use of the Timeline. He even brought out his...

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We've noted that both Russia and China recently pushed for even more internet censorship, and both did so while claiming that it was really to "protect the children." Of course, lots of other countries are following suit. For example, Argentina is now considering a bill that appears to created a...

thenextweb.com

China is famous for its unique Internet censorship policy — known as the Great Firewall — which restricts content, and in particular sites and services from overseas, preventing its 500 million-plus Internet users from having free reign online. Now that policy could be duplicated in Taiwan, where officials have proposed...

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A new status code to reflect internet censorship could be named after Ray Bradbury's most famous novel, Fahrenheit 451Ray Bradbury's fiction looks set to enter the structure of the internet, after a software developer has proposed a new HTTP status code inspired by Fahrenheit 451.Tim Bray, a fan of Bradbury's...

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Governments, citizens, media and tech companies are all wrestling with how to handle the hypernetworked future that's rushing in on us, and it's starting to get ugly. In this week's RWW Hangout, Dan, Eliot, Fruzsina, Jon and Ted tried to wrap their minds around Internet censorship, the relationship between...

torrentfreak.com

China is no stranger to Internet censorship. The country’s Great Firewall includes many well known sites, but up until now BitTorrent sites have never been blocked. There was a short blocking incident two years ago when Mininova, isoHunt and The Pirate Bay were hijacked and redirected to the leading Chinese...

thenextweb.com

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan has blasted Twitter and social media in general for spreading rumors and “lies” this weekend as police clashed fought with protests in Istanbul and other cities. Erdogan went so far as calling social media “the curse of society today”. Demonstrators took over a square in Turkey’s capital...

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Facebook and Twitter reported to have been blocked in run-up to protests, with people turning to VPNs to broadcast contentMobile internet users in Turkey are routing around suspected censorship by its government by downloading software that encrypts and hides their connections to the outside world, as the unrest in the...

thenextweb.com

The narrative that international venture capitalists were looking to the Far East for the next big thing appears to have changed, as investments in China are down, both in terms of dollars and deals, as noted by the San Jose Mercury News. 2012 saw $3.7 billion dollars invested and 202 deals...

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Update: Just as we published this, news came in that this amendment was rebuffed, but the point remains: Congress keeps trying to sneak in little favors to Hollywood every chance it gets. Congress continues to show that it learned absolutely nothing from the SOPA/PIPA mess earlier this year. While we've...

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March 12th was World Day Against Cyber Censorship, a campaign by Reporters without Borders intended to raise awareness of the power of the Internet to promote freedom of thought and speech. To mark this event, the international non-profit has released a list of “Enemies of the Internet“, holding nothing back...

www.extremetech.com

China has long been a home to internet censorship, but it has been relatively lax until recently. Internet users have been able to easily and cheaply thwart the restrictions for years, but a number of concerning events show a trend toward more substantial censorship in the People’s Republic of China...

thenextweb.com

Today Representative Greg Walden, current chairman of the House Communications and Technology subcommittee, introduced a piece of draft legislation that lays out a series of policy points, and regulatory perspectives on the global Internet, and the role of the United States to both foster and protect it. As The Hill notes,...

blogs.wsj.com

Google’s director of public policy Alan Davidson is testifying this afternoon to the federal government’s Congressional-Executive Commission on China. Much of what he is saying about Google’s decision on China has been discussed before. But Mr. Davidson also plans to talk about Internet censorship as a trade issue and what...

allthingsd.com

“Our democracy has been hacked,” said former U.S. vice president and investor Al Gore today at SXSW today. Serial Internet entrepreneur and investor Sean Parker prefers the term “co-opted,” but he agreed. “In the print era, when this country was founded, reason and truth and facts played a bigger role,”...

venturebeat.com

Most modern governments celebrate the anniversary of a national revolution day by making it an official holiday where people routinely get off work, eat food that probably isn’t healthy, and spend quality time with family and friends. If you live in Iran, however, the government celebrates by blocking access to...

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Advocate of freedom of information who faced trial over hacking allegations reported to have killed himself in New YorkAaron Swartz, a celebrated computer activist and co-founder of the popular internet community website Reddit, has died. It is believed that the 26-year-old killed himself in New York City on Friday.A committed...

allthingsd.com

Every so often, a Google executive whips out what the company thinks is its trump card: Openness. Some examples: Android open sourcing in 2011, Facebook contact importing in 2010, a grand manifesto on “The Meaning of Open” in 2009. The latest is Google co-founder Sergey Brin, who told the Guardian...